AB42 5BE
Central Buchan · Aberdeenshire · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Central Buchan
- Local authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan
- Postcode district
- AB42
- Postcode sector
- AB42 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AB42 5BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AB
- Postcode district
- AB42
- Postcode sector
- AB42 5
- Latitude
- 57.486895
- Longitude
- -1.990398
- British National Grid easting
- 400,675
- British National Grid northing
- 844,075
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Aberdeenshire · S12000034
- Electoral ward
- Central Buchan · S13002851
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Gordon and Buchan · S14000091
- Output area
- S00137898
- Lower layer super output area
- Ythanside - 04 · S01013985
- Middle layer super output area
- Ythanside · S02002597
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
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Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 88.9%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Coverage is a modelled postcode-level snapshot, not a speed test or a guarantee for a
named property. Check availability with providers before making a decision. Ofcom does not
publish postcode-level full-fibre coverage in this release for commercial-confidentiality
reasons.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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